MIMI KHALVATI, born in Tehran in 1944, grew up on the Isle of Wight and attended the Drama Centre, London. She worked as a director at the Theatre Workshop, Tehran, translating from English into Farsi and devising new plays. She co-founded the Theatre in Exile group. She now lives in Hackney and is a Visiting Lecturer at Goldsmiths College, running poetry workshops and courses in London. Her previous Carcanet collections include In White Ink (1991) and Mirrorwork (1995), Selected Poems (2000) and The Chine (2002).
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"Any number of other poems could be cited from Khalvati's superb volume that would further attest to her genius for translating in this way what might superficially seem old or recycled idioms into something novel and almost entirely her own (the collection includes villanelles, terze rime, and even a heroic crown of sonnets)." Rafael Campo, "Boston Review"